An assassination has happened in the northern countryside of Idlib, in "Tal a'da" land, the victim being "Sheikh Ibrahim Saleh", a judge for a court in al-Dana's Islamic establishment. Nothing is known about the assassin so far.

An interview with PYD's Saleh Muslim to a Saudi Riyadh newspaper where Saleh claims that Kurds suffered from Turkey as an executor & Qatar as a financier. Claiming also there is an Iran-Turkey-Qatar alliance against the PTD; and that tribes work with the PYD & have links to the Gulf. Denying the PYD supports the Syrian regime and stating that the PYD has no relations with Iran.

The largest training exercise of its kind, four hundred soldiers from the Israeli army's Egoz commando unit conducted training exercises in Cyprus. The area is similar to the Mount Lebanon range in Lebanon, feeding rumors it could be against Hezbollah.

The first victim of the Grenfell Tower fire has been named as Syrian refugee Mohammed al-Haj Ali, from Daraa, Syria, whom grieving friends say "came here (the UK) for a better life" but the UK "failed him". “He survived Assad, the war in Syria, only to die in a tower block in London. There are no words,” Abdulaziz Almashi, a friend of the family and co-founder of the UK-based Syrian Solidarity Campaign said.

Fighters of the Northern Democratic Brigade showing recently liberated areas in the al-Baryd neighbourhood.
Northern Democratic Brigade were SRF/FSA rebels in Idlib before being forced out by Jabhat al-Nusra, fled to SDF-held Afrin

IS claims that around 11 fighters of the YPG/SDF were killed in clashes south/south-west of Tabaqah airbase, saying they raided YPG positions near Hawrah village which resulted in 5 YPG fighters killed and that they also repelled an attempt by the YPG to advance toward 'Ad'ad village south of Tabaqah airbase resulting in 6 YPG fighters killed.